Hi, a few of us were chatting in #marketing in IRC today, and one topic that came up, that I believe has come up before, is the creation of a GNOME Store to sell merchandise, such as t-shirts.
Stormy has previously talked to Zazzle, who runs the Mozilla store (http://store.mozilla.org/), and it sounds like it's very easy to get up and running with them. I'd like to propose we form a small team. Longer term, they'd be responsible for reviewing new artwork from the community, helping decide which logos should be on different kinds of merchandise, helping manage sales or clearance items, and maybe even develop some limited time special merchandise for sale, in addition to managing the website. Short term, we need the team to implement the store. Action items I can think of off the top of my head: * Get a GNOME mailing list setup (gnome-store?) * Get some artwork - In addition to our foot logo, is there previously created GNOME artwork or logos that we can use? * Get the artwork to Zazzle and decide what kind of merchandise we want to launch with * Create the GNOME store web pages in the gnomeweb-wml (What else am I missing?) Going forward if we can form a steering committee to help manage and launch this, it might provide some small income to help the Foundation. If we can get some volunteers, especially from the art team and web team, and anyone else, we might be able to get something going. I'm more than happy to lend a hand if there is interest in getting something like this going. Paul _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
